Sure is. btrfs-send is your friend. Yes, you do pay the cost of having to choose what you back up before backing up.
But you don't have to use btrfs-send either. Snapshot the entire drive, safely rsync, remove the snapshot. Also works, and without race conditions.
dcz /
npub1ws…ehalv
2024-06-30 05:24:26
in reply to nevent1q…tkhl
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